# 2023 Women's FA Cup final

The 2023 Women's FA Cup final was the 53rd final of the Women's FA Cup, England's primary cup competition for women's football teams. The showpiece event was the 29th to be played directly under the auspices of The Football Association (FA) and was named the Vitality Women's FA Cup Final due to sponsorship reasons.
The final was contested between Manchester United and Chelsea, on 14 May 2023 at Wembley Stadium in London.
Chelsea were the defending champions of the last two editions, and won their third consecutive cup on a 68th-minute Sam Kerr goal assisted by a Pernille Harder cross. The attendance of 77,390 broke the previous cup's record of 49,094, and also set a new world record for attendance to a match in a domestic women's competition, topping the 60,739 attendance to Atlético Madrid against Barcelona in the Primera División on 19 March 2019.
VAR was not only used for the first time in the final but also the first time that it was used in an English women's competitions league or cup.

## Match
### Details

| Chelsea | Manchester United |
| GK | 30 | Ann-Katrin Berger |
| RB | 15 | Ève Périsset |
| CB | 18 | Maren Mjelde |
| CB | 16 | Magdalena Eriksson (c) | | |
| LB | 21 | Niamh Charles | 56' | 72' |
| RM | 8 | Melanie Leupolz | | 57' |
| CM | 17 | Jessie Fleming | | 57' |
| LM | 22 | Erin Cuthbert | | |
| RW | 10 | Lauren James | 80' | 88' |
| CF | 20 | Sam Kerr | 68' |
| LW | 11 | Guro Reiten | 53' | |
| Substitutes: ||
| GK | 1 | Zećira Mušović |
| CM | 5 | Sophie Ingle | 87' | 57' |
| DF | 7 | Jess Carter | | 72' |
| MF | 13 | Kateřina Svitková |
| MF | 19 | Johanna Rytting Kaneryd |
| RW | 23 | Pernille Harder | | 57' |
| DF | 26 | Kadeisha Buchanan | | 88' |
| LW | 27 | Alsu Abdullina |
| MF | 28 | Jelena Čanković |
| Manager: ||
| Emma Hayes ||
| GK | 27 | Mary Earps |
| RB | 2 | Ona Batlle |
| CB | 15 | Maya Le Tissier |
| CB | 21 | Millie Turner |
| LB | 6 | Hannah Blundell | 79' |
| RM | 10 | Katie Zelem (c) |
| LM | 12 | Hayley Ladd | 90+1' |
| RW | 22 | Nikita Parris | 61' |
| CAM | 7 | Ella Toone | 79' |
| CF | 23 | Alessia Russo |
| LW | 11 | Leah Galton |
| Substitutes: ||
| DF | 5 | Aoife Mannion | 79' |
| MF | 8 | Vilde Bøe Risa |
| FW | 9 | Martha Thomas | 90+1' |
| DF | 14 | Jayde Riviere |
| MF | 16 | Lisa Naalsund |
| FW | 17 | Lucía García | 79' |
| FW | 28 | Rachel Williams | 61' |
| DF | 29 | Estelle Cascarino |
| GK | 32 | Sophie Baggaley |
| Manager: ||
| Marc Skinner ||
| Player of the match Sam Kerr (Chelsea) Match officials Referee: Emily Heaslip (Suffolk) Assistant referees: Georgia Ball (Derbyshire) Chloe-Ann Small (Hampshire) Fourth official: Abigail Byrne (Cambridgeshire) Reserve assistant: Sophie Dennington (Berks & Bucks) Video assistant referee (VAR): Michael Salisbury (Lancashire) VAR assistant: Sian Massey-Ellis (Birmingham) | Match rules 90 minutes 30 minutes of extra-time if necessary Penalty shoot-out if scores still level Nine named substitutes Maximum of five substitutions in three normal-time stoppages and/or a fourth stoppage in extra-time |

### Statistics

Overall :
| Statistic | Chelsea | Manchester United |
| Goals scored | 1 | 0 |
| Total shots | 8 | 14 |
| Shots on target | 4 | 5 |
| Ball possession | 48% | 52% |
| Corner kicks | 0 | 2 |
| Fouls committed | 9 | 10 |
| Yellow cards | 4 | 0 |
| Red cards | 0 | 0 |